“California Teachers Association President Lois Tinson had a simple answer for why test scores remain stagnant despite ever increasing public resources devoted to education. ‘Today’s low scores’ she explained, ‘are evidence of the high quality of today’s system.’
Tinson compared the disappearance of high test scores to the disappearance of the ….400 hitter in baseball. ‘The so-called decline in test scores is just the opposite. Instead of an elite five percent scoring 1100 , we have 50% or more scoring 900. And that is not decline, that is a spread of excellence. Further, just as the extinction of the .400 hitter reflects greater excellence in other aspects of the game of baseball, current test scores reflect the greater excellence of public education.'”
Cited in Peter Brimelow’s “The Worm In The Apple”
Out of their own mouths, advertised with a positive spin, we see what socialism always does. Socialism is a system that reduces everybody to lowest common denominator misery. In this case, socialism as applied to education, contrives to make all the students equally stupid. Now the genius in this is that the educational establishment has, for years, been lowering the bar on standardized testing so that lower scores are masked by dumbing down the tests. So a test, that has been dumbed down, finds more children being equally stupid but it is spun as fewer children being elite so that more children can be above average.
This kind of reasoning makes my head hurt.
I copied this et al to my fb… I didn’t think to get permission before hand… but did give credit for the quotes as you have them within the text and to IronInk.org for the whole… sorry about not getting permission ahead of time.
Bob… you don’t need to get permission to use whatever is on Iron Ink.